I stand by my original statement.
One. It was not in unison, it started with one online retailer, than others followed suite. If it was all in unison we wouldn't be getting threads everytime a new retailer releases a price.
Two. Why would retailers do this? The first thing that comes to mind is retailers wanting snag up preorders before some other companies would make those sales.
Three. How would they do this? To take a preorder as far as i know you must have an actual price. If there is no price what can you do? Pick a hi end price of what you think it may cost, or price match what others have put out. 149 was the towards the high end of what peoplewhere predicting natal would cost so if you want to over shoot the price to avoid taking losses ( most preorders say they will not raise the price, but could still lower it if something changes) it would be a good number to pick.
And as I said before, until I see an actual anouncement of the price from microsoft I will take everything else with a grain of salt and not as fact.
